JettyGirl: frontside air

Silvana Lima is the only person we've ever seen that other surfers, both guys and girls, get out of the water to watch her surf. On this day in Southern California, the Brazilian surfer lit up the place with huge frontside snaps and creative frontside airs. Although injured throughout the majority of 2012, we have our fingers crossed that Silvana will be back in the water turning heads in 2013. Single Wave Thursday. One ride, no music, just surfing. * To change the resolution to HD, click the little icon to the left of the clock on the YouTube screen (you must hit the play arrow first to see the icons)...

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Notes from the Sand: Courtney Conlogue's Frontside Air in the Round of 24 Presented by InsuranceSurfers.com The Paul Mitchell Supergirl Pro was an incredible event to watch. It's unusual to have eighty of the world's best surfers descend on your local break at one time but for the week of the Supergirl Pro, that's exactly what happened. After the madness of the US Open at Huntington, the City of Oceanside provided a welcome relief for many of the pros and I heard that sentiment repeated continuously throughout the week. Although there were some funky winds here and there, the ocean delivered...

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Unlike most of our readers I've been alive since the first shortboard airs were attempted. Early on they were scoffed at and labeled as "tricks for kids." Despite the backlash of the early days though, I can vividly remember even the grumpiest on-the-wave-face-only surfers saying things like, "If someone could do a functional air to make a section though, that would be acceptable." Fast forward a few decades to the modern era and it's an accepted fact that high-performance surfing also includes air time. Huge spins, flips and tweaks aside, punting airs to make sections isn't as commonplace as I'd think...

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